Low-Power Wireless with Denseness: The Case of an Electronic Shelf Labeling System-Design and Experienceopen access
- Authors
- Ock J.; Kim H.; Kim H.-S.; Paek J.; Bahk S.
- Issue Date
- Nov-2019
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Keywords
- channel diversity; Electronic shelf label; IEEE 802.15.4; Internet of Things; multipath fading; smart market; wireless sensor network
- Citation
- IEEE Access, v.7, pp 163887 - 163897
- Pages
- 11
- Journal Title
- IEEE Access
- Volume
- 7
- Start Page
- 163887
- End Page
- 163897
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/37437
- DOI
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950886
- ISSN
- 2169-3536
- Abstract
- One of the most important and recurrent tasks in managing a store is to provide accurate information of products to customers by maintaining up-to-date price tags of every item. Till today, however, updating price tags is done manually in most markets, which is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. Adopting wirelessly reconfigurable electronic price tags could be of significant benefit to this problem. A key requirement of such a system, then, is to establish a robust, reliable, and scalable wireless communication network while spending minimal energy on thousands of densely-deployed and battery-powered price tags. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of electronic shelf labeling (ESL) system including its design and real-world deployment experiences. While the overall design turns out to be relatively straightforward, our preliminary study using 1000 real commercial e-tags reveals technical challenges in reliable and low-power wireless communication with ultra-high node density in scatter-rich indoor environments. To address the problem, we adopt multi-radio and multi-channel diversity techniques which need to modify only the gateways but significantly improve overall system performance. Our evaluation from a real-world deployment of 550 tags at an actual convenience store shows that our proposal achieves 98.51% network connectivity, 590 ms average latency for price updates, and over 5 years of e-tag lifetime. ESL system is part of the upcoming smart market era, and we see this work as a practical industrial application case study of Internet of Things technologies. © 2013 IEEE.
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